Liberty Maniacs

Shopify doesn't have a modern system for marking products down and setting timed sales. It's an oversight that's quite strange, but thankfully for a reasonable price Bold offers this app that allows you to create discounts on a schedule with a number of features that make things like flash sales possible. The installation was straightforward and the user interface is as well. I haven't needed support until today for a minor issue. This is after over a year and a half using the app. My customer service rep Naman asked if I could write a review while in the chat, so I'm doing so now as a professional courtesy. (Thanks, Naman!) Converting sales is your job as a shop manager. For many of you, it's just one job out of an almost countless array of responsibilities. It's daunting. Shopify's lack of markdown tools makes something like this actually pretty necessary if you have an inventory of thousands of items and variants like I do. In my experience markdowns are better for customers. They see the discount, can calculate savings, and need one less step to punctuate a sale. I recommend trying the app. It's a set it and forget it solution that your customers will appreciate as much as you. You can even tag sort sale items so that they populate a special "Sale" collection in your store automatically. It's pretty great and well worth the $15 a month. Is it dumb that Shopify doesn't have this feature already? Yes. But Bold made a nice app in the meantime. Support is great too. Just now Chintak helped me clear a stuck sale. It happens sometimes with some of our larger sales. But they fix it quickly. Quick, helpful, friendly, professional. Hey, I've had Bold Discounts rolling for about 10 years now. Use it everyday. Our store is massive. If it works this good for us, it'll be no problem for yours. I didn't get paid or get any credit for this review. I'm just doing Bold and Chintak who helped today a solid for making my life easier for years.

Liberty Maniacs uses Omnisend. We've been in business for over 20 years and to say we have a quirky way of marketing is like saying Joe Biden is a little flighty or Trump has a slightly inflated ego. Weird downright weird. But Omnisend gives us the flexibility and simplicity to communicate with customers, and sometimes more importantly not bug the folks that don't appreciate getting tapped on the shoulder 15 times a day asking if they'd like to check out their sweet new t-shirt. There's SMS, push, and all sorts of automated funnels which are really important for helping customers navigate stores like ours which have an obnoxious amount of items. Pricing is fair. Let's face it, it costs money to make these things work and in the tricked-out email marketing game, there are only a few really at this level. Customization is just updated. Geared to really help folks that didn't go to graphic design school - which is pretty much everyone. But it's also great for artists like us who want to customer out things and maximize the weird. It does that too. Support is good as well. I actually just got off with a rep. She was delightful and even laughed at my jokes which is a kindness often too much to ask. They have a chat, and other methods if it's a more hands-on issue. All in all, it works for us. Email marketing for small businesses and solo acts can be pure misery. Totally get that. That's why we at least try and use a platform that accommodates us being us, and makes it as easy as possible. Good luck with your decision! And business! You got this.

It helped my make beautiful notification emails for my customers. Really powerful.